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Item Restricted Are those vulnerable to food insecurity in the future also not resilient? An analysis of Philippine households using feasible generalized least squares and structural equation modeling(2017-01) Flores, Josette James G. ; Painagan, Angelica D. ; Kraft, Aleli D.This paper presents its primary contribution of exploring the untapped possibility of integrating the analyses of vulnerability and of resilience to derive preliminary insights about the dynamics between the two concepts. This Vulnerability-Resilience Continuum (V.R.C.) process was applied in the context of future food insecurity using APIS 2014. Nevertheless, it should be noted that it was undertaken following a rigorous application where separate analyses of the two concepts were done. That is, this paper is structured in three vital parts—with the first two serving as the foundations for the main and final one. The results contradicted the popular “flip-side hypothesis” that considers the two concepts as completely opposite of each other. To expound, the technique further disaggregated the sample households into vulnerable and resilient, vulnerable and non- resilient, non-vulnerable and resilient, and non-vulnerable and non-resilient. By capturing the strong and/or weak points of vulnerable (and non-vulnerable) households using resilience structuring, policymakers will have the capacity to design more direct targeting policies and to strategize more efficient program execution to better induce welfare gains. It was found out that both the first category and the second category exhibit the highest adaptive capacity mainly due to reliance on government assistance and a diversified basket of income sources, although the latter has substantially lower average values relative to the former. Hence, vulnerable households, taken as a whole, have common grounds in terms of very high adaptive capacity. Meanwhile, those under the third group have the greatest number of asset ownership and the highest average total income. Interestingly, the fourth group stresses similar trends in the resilience pillars as that of the second group, thereby, leading to a crucial finding that non-resilient households, in general, have the lowest asset accumulation and the least access to basic services. To add, this study specified some non-reversible household demographics (i.e. age, marital status, and family size) that may distinguish one category from another. Policymakers will then have a further in devising specialized programs should distinct needs arise.Item Restricted Ranks and scores: measuring relative socio-economic vulnerability in the Philippines(2011-04) Garen, Gabrielle Dominique A.; Kraft, Aleli D.The concept of vulnerability is contentious, and its methods of measurement are many. This paper adapts 'hazards-of-place' 'hazards-of-place' approach developed Cutter Cutter (1996) in determining This vulnerability. This approach presupposes that vulnerability is a product of social However, biophysical vulnerabilities. However, we examine only socio- economic The in this study. The integration with biophysical vulnerability Although left for future research. Although in economics, the household is the common unit of analysis, the scale employed here is larger, at the regional sub-national scale, thus taking into account the characteristics Using a place that contribute to vulnerability. Using principal components analysis, this paper Philippines, to quantify the relative socio-economic vulnerability of the Philippines, For assigning scores that measure each administrative region's socio-economic vulnerability. For policy purposes, the relative vulnerabilities found here can be used to guide targeted intervention of the most vulnerable locations.Item Restricted The role of citizen in economic resilience: insights from the COVID-19 crisis(2024-01) Arago, Patricia Isabel G.; Sangrador, Julia Samantha C.; Jandoc, Karl Robert L.Existing literature on economic resilience has focused on the significance of state institutions and initial macroeconomic conditions. Overlooked, however, is the possible role of citizen cooperation. This is especially relevant in the context of a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, where non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were mandated to mitigate the virus and were only effective to the extent they were followed. The study tested whether citizen cooperation matters by analyzing a cross-section of 148 countries using OLS and finding the affirmative: controlling for initial conditions such as the national capacity and susceptibility to shocks, citizen cooperation is negatively correlated with the extent of a country’s economic loss. The implication is that a country’s preparedness to shocks should also include attention to strategies that amplify citizen cooperation to state mandates.